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Λευκή τις ἀνεπήδησ' ὅμοιος Νικίᾳ
someone white like Nikias sprang up
… from the scholia on the line follows. This early-fourth-century (BCE)
Nikias
is taken to be a grandson of the ill-fated general of that name (kappa 1731, lambda 557, mu 534, nu 389, pi 542, …
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519
Βρασίδας
Brasidas
… as one of the Spartan signatories to the Peace of
Nikias
in 421 (Thucydides 5.19.2). Brasidas' mother was named Argileonis (Plutarch, Moralia 240C). [2] Contrary to the impression given here, Methone never revolted against …
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131
Λαρυγγιῶ
I will throttle
… occurs: "I will throttle the orators and I will harass
Nikias".
See web address 1. (For
Nikias
see nu 389.) cf. lambda 130.
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Ἀνανεοῦσθαι
to renew
… (web address 1 below), a provision of the Peace of
Nikias,
on renewing an oath. [2] Cratinus fr. 167 Kock, now 178 K.-A.
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Ἄπεστιν
is away
… it may, the principal one was a younger brother of
Nikias;
see generally on him J.K. Davies, Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC (Oxford 1971) 404. [3] The Thirty Tyrants were Athenian oligarchs granted power …
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619
Διαλλάττειν
to reconcile
… held Spartans responsible for the failure of the "Peace of
Nikias"
and the resumption of the Peloponnesian War. [2] Evidently in a different proverb; cf. Aristophanes Acharnians 10 (web address 2; kappa 1465), and …
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1161
Διόμεια
Diomeia
… Duris FGrHist 76 FF 67 and 68); Plutarch, Alcibiades 21.3,
Nicias
13.3; scholion on Aristophanes, Frogs 477. [2] See scholion on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1207. Son of Kollytos (the eponym of another deme) this …
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2343
Ἐπιθυμῶν
desiring
… instead a convincing link with Gylippos (gamma 477), whom Plutarch,
Nikias
28.3 [28.2 Loeb], describes as 'demanding to bring alive to the Lakedaimonians' the Athenian generals he had captured in Syracuse. [3] As already …
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